"Miller Cane: A True and Exact History" by Samuel Ligon

Northwest Passages reads local with "Miller Cane: A True and Exact History."

Spokane author Samuel Ligon joins Northwest Passages November 19 to discuss "Miller Cane: A True and Exact History,” at the Montvale Event Center. 

Ligon will be in conversation with best-selling author Jess Walter at 7 p.m.

 

Samuel Ligon’s most recent novel—"Miller Cane: A True & Exact History"—was serialized for a year in Spokane’s weekly newspaper, The Inlander, as well as on Spokane Public Radio, before being published in revised and expanded form by Slant Books in 2026.

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The author:  Ligon is the author of four previous books of fiction, including two novels—Among the Dead and Dreaming and Safe in Heaven Dead—and two collections of stories, Wonderland, illustrated by Stephen Knezovich, and Drift and Swerve. With Kate Lebo, he co-edited Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze. His stories and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, New England Review,  Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, The Spokesman-Review and elsewhere. Ligon teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane and has served as EWU’s Faculty Legislative Liaison in Olympia and as Artistic Director of the Port Townsend Writers Conference.